Tag: HIV/AIDS
Kano Hisbah arrest 43 for prostitution, says 14 HIV positive
Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 43 people for prostitution and illegal sales of alcoholic substance at Kwanar Gafan vegetables market in Garun Malam...
AIDS: Group advocates increased funding for HIV/AIDS intervention
The Coalition of Civil Society Network for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria has said that increased funding for curative and preventive intervention for HIV/AIDS will...
Wike scraps user-fees for treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has abolished the payments of
user-fees for persons living with HIV/AIDS who want to access to treatment at state-owned
health facilities.
Mr...
Nigeria had second largest HIV epidemic in 2016 — Report
Nigeria had the second largest HIV epidemic in 2016, with over 196,000 adolescents representing 10 per cent of the global burden said to be...
200,000 living with HIV in Oyo – NACA DG
Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Sani Aliyu, says an estimated 200,000 people are living with HIV in Oyo State.
He...
50 % people in Gombe don’t know HIV/AIDS status – Official
Programme Manager, Gombe State Agency for the Control of HIV and AIDS (GOMSACA), Dr Suraj Abdulkarim, has said 50 percent of people in the...